First Day Adventure!

After sleeping most of the day away, we decided to go exploring. We went to McDonald's for lunch (I know, we played it safe! :) ) Our first face to face conversation with a Ukrainian was at Mcdonald's. After struggling to communicate our order of 2 Big Macs, 2 fries and 2 sodas, we ended up with 1 BigMac , 1 Fry, and 3 sodas! I guess we need to polish up on our Russian! :) After lunch, we saw a bunch of people rushing into the doors of a big building across the street. We thought it might be a mall, so we decided to follow the crowd. It ended up being a train station, so we had to then turn around and go against the flow to try to get out. It was interesting to be pushed around from side to side by hurried locals. We decided to head back to the apartment when Eric caught a glance of an open air market. We had such fun going down the rows, listening to the locals shop, and looking at all the items labeled in hyvanias (Ukrainian money). Everything is quite a bit cheaper here than in US. We had many encounters with the shop owners as we bought some necessities and they didn't speak any English but were very patient with our hand gestures.